Police Contract Job Trends in South London

Police
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Police in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Police over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Police 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.48% - 1.50%
As % of the General category 0.81% - 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £702 - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 - £466
75th Percentile £707 - £499
90th Percentile - - £519
London median daily rate £545 £495 £550
% change year-on-year +10.10% -10.00% +7.32%

All General Skills
South London

Police falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 123 149 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 59.42% 65.07% 65.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 90 123
10th Percentile £238 £293 £153
25th Percentile £413 £425 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £528
Median % change year-on-year -14.24% +10.42% -4.69%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £631
90th Percentile £650 £771 £673
London median daily rate £535 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 12
10th Percentile £62.13 - £17.45
25th Percentile £62.69 £17.25 £21.13
Median hourly rate £64.75 £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +232.05% -17.02% +4.44%
75th Percentile £66.19 £78.40 £65.70
90th Percentile £66.38 £81.28 £72.00
London median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.86% - +3.49%

Police
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Police relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Police job vacancy trend in South London

Police
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Police.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Police

Police
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Police.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Police

Police
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Police within the South London region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon - 1 £705 -
Police
London

Police
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes